LISMORE

island in the entrance of the sea inlet of Loch Linnhe, Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Argyllshire, Scotland. It is about 9.5 miles (15 km) long and less than 2 miles (3 km) wide. A Columban (early Celtic Christian) monastery was founded on the island about 592. In the 13th century it became the seat of the bishop of Argyll. A small cathedral has been restored and is used as the parish church of the small island community. Pop. (1991) 140. city, northeastern New South Wales, Australia, on the north arm of the Richmond River. It is situated 18 miles (29 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean and has its outport at Ballina. Ward Stephens first settled the site in 1843; it was later occupied by William Wilson and named by him, probably for the Scottish island of Lismore. It is a farm processing centre (butter, bacon, sugar) and has had considerable light industrial development, including sawmilling, engineering, steel fabrication, and clothing manufacture. It became a village in 1856, a municipality in 1879, and a city in 1946. Pop. (1991) 27,246. Irish Lios Mor market town, County Waterford, Ireland. It lies in the Blackwater valley, at the southern foot of the Knockmealdown Mountains. A monastery was founded in Lismore by St. Cartagh about 633. In the 9th and 10th centuries it was plundered by the Norsemen. The baronial castle, erected by Prince John, later king of England, in 1185, was the residence of the bishops of Lismore until the 14th century; in 1581 the manor was granted to Sir Walter Raleigh, and from him it passed to Richard Boyle in 1602. Robert Boyle, one of the founders of modern chemistry, was born in the manor in 1627. In 1753 the castle passed to the 4th Duke of Devonshire, whose successor still retains it. Lismore has some river trade and is the centre of a salmon fishery. Pop. (1986) 703.